All week
“The Family” (Point, Eastgate, Star Cinema, Sundance) — A mob family relocates to the south of France’s in Luc Besson’s high-concept R-rated comedy, which is not getting very good reviews.
“Insidious: Chapter 2” (Point, Eastgate, Star Cinema) — Geez, we’re only on Chapter 2? The PG-13 jump-scare series about spirits haunting ghosts and people continues onward.
“Austenland” (Sundance) — My full review is here. Most critics are panning this Keri Russell film, but I thought it was a refreshingly goofy entry in the increasingly formulaic rom-com genre.
“Crystal Fairy” (Sundance) — My full review is here. Michael Cera and Gaby Hoffmann are two very different Americans lost in Chile and looking for a magical cactus in this shaggy road comedy with surprising bite.
Friday
“The Great Gatsby” (6:30 p.m., Union South Marquee Theatre) — My full review is here. Baz Luhrmann’s attempt to jazz up the Jazz Age classic with hip-hop and 3D didn’t work, although Leonardo DiCaprio is perfectly at ease in the title role. FREE!
“L’Avventura” (7 p.m., UW CInematheque, 4070 Vilas Hall) — The Cinematheque presents a newly struck 35mm print of MIchelangelo Antonioni’s seminal 1960 Italian film. FREE!
“Frances Ha” (9:30 p.m., Union South Marquee Theatre) — My full review is here. Greta Gerwig absolutely sparkles in Noah Baumbach’s French New Wave-inspired comedy about a New York dancer finally moving into adulthood. FREE!
“Spring Breakers” (midnight, Union South Marquee Theatre) — Harmony Korine gives the people what they think they want in this candy-colored tale of guns and bikinis in south Florida. FREE!
Saturday
“The Great Gatsby” (6 p.m. and 9 p.m., Union South Marquee Theatre) — See Friday listing.
“Army of Shadows” (7 p.m., UW Cinematheque) — Jean-Pierre Melville’s grimly unsentimental thriller about the French Resistance only surfaced a few years ago, and it’s a masterpiece, suspenseful but also eloquent in the moral compromises good makes to fight evil. FREE!
“Spring Breakers” (midnight, Union South Marquee Theatre) — See Friday listing.
Sunday
“River of No Return” (2 p.m., Chazen Museum of Art, 800 Langdon St.) — Otto Preminger’s 1954 film follows a river rat (Robert Mitchum) help a saloon singer (Marilyn Monroe) find her husband on the raging rapids in this CinemaScope classic. FREE!
“The Great Gatsby” (3 p.m., Union South Marquee Theatre) — See Friday listing.
Monday
“Between Us” (1:45 and 9:30 p.m., Eastgate, 9:30 p.m. Point) — This lacerating indie film stars Julia Stiles and Taye Diggs in a tale of two couples who reveal secrets over the course of a dinner party.
“Dazed and Confused” (4 p.m. Eastgate and Point) — School’s out for summer in Richard Linklater’s knowing evocation of ’70s high school life. Twenty years after its release, we get older, but it still stays the same.
“Paul McCartney and Wings — Rockshow” (6:30 p.m. Eastgate and Point) — Did you miss Paul at Miller Park? Catch him in his prime in this concert film, taking during Wings’ 1976 world tour.
Tuesday
“Between Us” (4 p.m. Point and Eastgate) — See Monday listing.
“Paul McCartney and Wings: Rockshow” (6:30 p.m. Point and Eastgate) — See Monday listing.
“Frances Ha” (7 p.m., Union South Marquee Theatre) — See Friday listing.
“Dazed and Confused” (9:30 p.m., Point and Eastgate) — See Monday listing.
Wednesday
“Between Us” (4 p.m., Point and Eastgate) — See Monday listing
“Dazed and Confused” (6:30 p.m, Point and Eastgate) — See Monday listing.
“Frances Ha” (9:30 p.m. Union South Marquee Theatre) — See Friday listing.
“Paul McCartney and Wings: Rockshow” (9:30 p.m. Point and Eastgate) — See Monday listing.
Thursday
“Between Us” (4 p.m., Point and Eastgate) — See Monday listing.
“Dazed and Confused” (6:30 p.m, Point and Eastgate) — See Monday listing.
“Stoker” (7 p.m., Union South Marquee Theatre) — My full review is here. Park Chan-wook’s American debut is an exercise in style, but what style, a Gothic thriller in which a teenage girl (Mia Wasikowska) contends with a mysterious uncle (Matthew Goode) who arrives after her father’s death. FREE!
“This is the End” (9:30 p.m., Union South Marquee Theatre) — My full review is here. Looking back, I think “The World’s End” gets the nod as apocalypse comedy of the summer, but this raunchy and bloody comedy is a close second, as Seth Rogen, James Franco and others play themselves dealing with end times. FREE!
“Paul McCartney and Wings: Rockshow” (9:30 p.m. Point and Eastgate) — See Monday listing.